I think most of the anti-AM attitude is just the lowest common denominator speaking.
To them Slop-bucket is the "standard" voice mode on HF. So it follows that anything else is evil. Some years ago I had a discussion with one of the locals who exhibits this thinking. His reasoning (like most of them) was that AM occupies too much bandwidth. And of course we need to conserve spectrum. So AM should be outlawed. I countered by saying that on 2 meter CB there's not enough room for all the FM repeaters. Since ACSB occupies such little bandwidth you could put at least four repeaters of that mode in the same spectrum of one NBFM signal. So they should out outlaw FM on 2 meters and everyone switch to ACSB. (tongue firmly implanted in cheek) His eloquent, well thought out response? "But EVERYONE uses FM!" Robert A. Poff Chief Engineer WSBA / WARM-FM / WSOX / WGLD York, PA. Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Lieutenant, target the offending power boat and launch photon torpedoes" ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
